Insurance renewal landed in my inbox tonight. $340, due in 4 days. Opened the budget spreadsheet to check, then just sat there staring at it.
The invoice still hasn’t cleared. Stopped counting the days a while back, it wasn’t helping anything.
Boxes are still taped shut in the corner. Know that’s its own task, just don’t have anything left for it tonight.
Sitting with the boxes and the number for now.
ugh, same boat, 4 days left and still here…
same thing happened to me, left mine sitting on the counter for 9 days before opening it!
mine was $280 and i didn’t open the envelope for days either, the boxes can wait, you’re not behind on anything tonight
The part that got me was the not counting the days, I did that for a stretch earlier this year when a project fell through and an invoice sat open for 11 days before I could even look at it. Separating the two tasks helped so neither one blocks the other, the number doesn’t go away by staring at it but it doesn’t get bigger either.
The part about not counting the days anymore is what got me, because somewhere past 6 days of letting mail sit I stopped tracking it too, and that probably sounds odd but it just stopped being useful information. The boxes aren’t going anywhere either, 4 days is enough time for the bill but it’s not enough time on top of everything else that’s already using up the hours.
How long have those boxes been sitting there, a few weeks or more? Mine were taped up in the hallway for 3 months before I could even open that closet, so the invoice can wait a little while longer too.
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